---
kind: "unit"
title: "9"
title_heading: "Animals and Animal Products"
key: "chII/part205"
level: "part"
label: "Part 205"
heading: "Clear Title—protection for Purchasers of Farm Products"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/9/chII-part205"
sections_count: 22
---

# Part 205 — Clear Title—protection for Purchasers of Farm Products

Title 9 C.F.R. — Animals and Animal Products › Chapter II — Agricultural Marketing Service (fair Trade Practices Program), Department of Agriculture

## Sections

- [§205.1. Definitions.](/cfr/9/205.1.md)
- [§205.101. Certification—request and processing.](/cfr/9/205.101.md)
- [§205.102. Name of person subjecting a farm product to a security interest, on EFS and master list—format.](/cfr/9/205.102.md)
- [§205.103. EFS—minimum information.](/cfr/9/205.103.md)
- [§205.104. Registration of buyer, commission merchant, or selling agent—minimum information.](/cfr/9/205.104.md)
- [§205.105. Master list and portion thereof distributed to registrants—format.](/cfr/9/205.105.md)
- [§205.106. Farm products.](/cfr/9/205.106.md)
- [§205.107. Crop year.](/cfr/9/205.107.md)
- [§205.201. System operator.](/cfr/9/205.201.md)
- [§205.202. “Effective financing statement” or EFS.](/cfr/9/205.202.md)
- [§205.203. Place of filing EFS.](/cfr/9/205.203.md)
- [§205.204. Filing “notice” of EFS.](/cfr/9/205.204.md)
- [§205.205. Fees.](/cfr/9/205.205.md)
- [§205.206. Farm products.](/cfr/9/205.206.md)
- [§205.207. “Amount” and “County or parish”.](/cfr/9/205.207.md)
- [§205.208. Distribution of portions of master list—registration—information to non-registrants on request.](/cfr/9/205.208.md)
- [§205.209. Amendment or continuation of EFS.](/cfr/9/205.209.md)
- [§205.210. Effect of EFS outside State in which filed.](/cfr/9/205.210.md)
- [§205.211. Applicability of court decisions under the UCC.](/cfr/9/205.211.md)
- [§205.212. “Buyer in ordinary course of business” and “security interest.”](/cfr/9/205.212.md)
- [§205.213. Obligations subject—“person indebted”—“debtor.”](/cfr/9/205.213.md)
- [§205.214. Litigation as to whether a system is operating in compliance with the Section.](/cfr/9/205.214.md)